The mosaic of experience: How individual differences in attention and working memory shape event segmentation - Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications Episodic memories, although experienced as continuous, are structured into discrete events, a process supported by working memory (WM) and attentional control. Yet, the causal contributions of these m...

New paper out 🧠 We synthesize findings from aging, ADHD, dyslexia & OCD and propose that event segmentation emerges from the interaction of attention, working memory, and schemas/contextual modulation. Curious to hear your thoughts! link.springer.com/article/10.1...

1/ 🚨 New preprint

Key Moments Scaffold the Semantic Structure of Narratives

Using spoken recall and annotations from three naturalistic datasets with topic modeling, we ask: which parts of a narrative contribute most to its semantic structure and subsequently memory?

Preprint: osf.io/dcfvw

Excited to share our paper (with @jzacks.bsky.social), now out in JEP:LMC!

Event boundaries sometimes disrupt temporal order memory in list-based paradigms—but what happens in narratives with more complex structures that better resemble real life?

✨ Link: psycnet.apa.org/record/2027-...

Changes in our feelings, or "affective surprise," may act as a learning signal that influences what we remember. Large magnitude deviations in experienced valence during encoding relate to better long-term associative memory.

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You are inspiring!! So well deserved 🎉

New preprint alert! 📢 Event segmentation allows us to parse continuous experience into meaningful events. Working memory (WM) is suggested to play a key role in this process, but how?

osf.io/preprints/ps...

Ignorance is bliss: Exploring the dual role of knowledge in event segmentation - Psychonomic Bulletin & Review Episodic memories are segmented. This study explores the dual role of prior knowledge in event segmentation, hypothesizing that knowledge leads to coarser segmentation when experiences align with it, ...

How does prior knowledge affect the way we experience the world?

In our new paper, we show that prior knowledge can both increase and decrease how often experience is segmented into events.

link.springer.com/article/10.3...